Gran Turismo 5 Update 2.0 Live & DLC Packs Confirmed

Last week I made a post that outlined all the great new content incoming for GT5, well today is the day for the first wave of that new content – Functionality Update 2.0 is out now, so make sure you are online with your PS3, load up GT5 and it should update automatically.

As you know, you can always check which version of the game you are running by pressing the “Manual” button at the bottom of the main menu screen. The version number will be located on the upper left of the index page in this manual. If the number starts with Ver. 2.00, you know you’re up to date.

If not, press the PS button and quit the game. The game will be updated automatically when you restart it with your PS3 system connected to the Internet.

Update 2.0 is a fairly major enhancement for GT5 with some great new features and free content, as well as some popular improvements and fixes. Enjoy it!

In my last post I also promised to give you more details of the DLC that will be released on PlayStation Store on 18th October. There are four new packs plus a ‘complete pack’ that bundles them altogether at a discounted price.

The ‘Racing Car Pack‘ (€7.99) adds 12 new vehicles from Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota and Dodge, as well as three new bespoke karts. As fantastic as these rides are what will hopefully really excite amongst the car line up is a never seen before Red Bull X2011 Prototype. As some of you may already know, this is the pinnacle vehicle from the game and the most difficult to attain.

For me, one of the most exciting inclusions in the DLC is the Spa track that comes as part of the ‘Course Pack‘ (€3.99). Spa is an awesome circuit recreated with Yamauchi-san’s customary attention to detail. Out of La Source hairpin, downhill to cross the Eau Rouge stream and then uphill through the Eau Rouge left-right-left combination, flat out with a blind summit, always ranks right up there as one of, if not THE, best racing experience of any driver. And now, we’ll all be able to get a feeling of what it’s like to drive it in some of the world’s best cars. I have a sneaking suspicion it’ll be a massively popular addition to Gran Turismo.

This pack also contains a couple of layouts in a pretty impressive new indoor karting arena. A bit different to Spa, but still a great, fun racing experience.

A new 100-colour set of paints, that include new matte, chrome and aluminium colours, makes up the ‘Special Paint Pack‘ (€1.99).

The ‘Racing Gear Pack‘ (also €1.99) includes special racing gear with 25 new Gran Turismo design helmets and 15 race suits as well as new Simpson helmets and Alpinestars GP1 overalls. You also get a famous driver pack that includes race gear for some of the top Nascar and WRC drivers.

The ‘Complete Pack‘ bundle is priced at €11.99, but there is also a special PlayStation Plus Bundle Price for one month (from 18th October) of only €8.99.

So there you go, as well as the new changes provided by Functionality Update 2.0 there are plenty of other exciting changes coming. Yamauchi-san promised some evolution along the way in GT5 and I reckon this is a good start.

One final note for this post, don’t forget that the GT Academy: Road to Dubai series is currently airing on Eurosport and the full, four-part GT Academy 2011 series will be making its debut soon on various European channels. Keep an eye on www.facebook.com/gtacademy for broadcast times.

I don’t think this will happen, but I would like 3 great things for GT5:

1. A bit of tweaking of the handling for the Logitech G27 steering wheel. I’d say that the feeling in Shift is better than GT5, you should compare them and see what you think.

2. At least one SAAB model to attain, perhaps Saab 9-3 SportSedan Griffin Aero Biopower (220) XWD Man, or something like it. It would then of course be possible to Hirsh-tune it with more cash!

3. A re-design of the UI in the lobby… I don’t know that the designers were thinking, perhaps it’s a cultural thing between Japan and Europe/USA. It just feels like something from a game 20 years old (but higher resolution), and the music is really cheesy. I mean _really_ cheesy.

But number 3 is just a very minor thing! I think GT5 is a great game, and I’m glad for the updates!

Omg, thank you! That indoor kart track made me j*** in my pants! Although â¬7.99 is a little dear for 12 cars. Do the 12 cars have the same amount of detail as all the other premium cars in the game? If so, it’ll be the complete pack for me ğ

I just bought Forza 4 on my 360, but i will still buy the whole DLC bundle for GT 5. Its my thanks for giving us the big free update today. I support devs that do alot for free. I will still wont play the GT 5 DLC anytime soon thou because of Forza 4. ğ

great news!! spa was the only legendary track I missed badly from the game. So glad we didnt have to wait till gt6 for this! Definly getting the complete pack on release! The original free update was great aswell. Thanks!!

Is this a joke? 1.1GB patch with estimated download time 800 mins, on 8Mbps wired internet connection? Please do something with PSN bandwidth, otherwise people, GT fans will not be able to update and play their favourite games! Aprox. 12 hours of waiting to download a game patch.. At least it should be available as a background download.

Mad on racing games went out and bought GT5 on day1 played for 1hr and never went back.
Music sounds like a 80’s [DELETED]movie.
And it made me mad when there was no ford mondeo ST220. Loved the ford focus ST170 tho.

Looks like someone been burning the midnight oil, 11 months after release and finally some DLC has arrived.

Hopefully there is more going on in the background otherwise GT6 will be out on the PS5.

As for the update – a dozen new skins for Nascars and a dozen new race modifications for mainly japanese cars, thankfully theres Spa but why is there no new events to include this track.

Is there another planned DLC for European vehicles? How about a few more events? or the challenges from GT4? or manufacturers races from GT4? Actually why not just reissue GT4 or GT3 in HD.

Also for fixes please please pleae sort out the smoking tyres, can’t drive more than a few laps even on B-Spec. For example the Grand Valley speedway race in the Nascar event, you can’t see the track for the amount of smoke generated.

I’ll definitely be getting this! It’s awesome!
But I have one question… that free Red Bull car that was released just a while ago, how long will it be available? Because my PlayStation 3 is currently broken, so I have to wait until it’s fixed. Only then will I be able to get the car, provided it’s still available.

#50: I wouldnt say that when Forza 4 is coming out in 1 day. All cars is premium on day 1 like Forza 3.

Anwyay.. GT 5 wasnt finished upon release, and they used 1 more year for what should have been in the game before release. They used 7 years to make it closer to its finished state.

GT 5 have headtracking, but it cant be compared to Kinect/Forza 4 at
all. If the “PS3 Eye” and “360 Live Vision” was so good, why is devs supporting Kinect instead of (360) Live Vision and PS3 Eye? The old 360 LiveVision and PS3 cameras is old and outtdated. If you dont believe me, devs or reviewers..Try it for yourself. There is a reason why its the fastest selling 3rd party add-on since Balanceboard for Wii.

As i said earlier, i will still buy the whole GT 5 pack and play it again later. GT5 is a good racing game, but just not the best. I will download the GT5 update now.

All cars are premium in Forza 4… yeah how many are there again? ~500 vs the 1,100+ in GT5.

And lol, without GT you wouldn’t even have Forza because they blatantly ripped it off. F4 is basically an updated version of F3, its basically the equivalent of what PD is doing in these updates, only difference is M$ is charging you an extra Â£40. So if PD released GT6 (or GT5.2 as GT6) you for Â£40 you’d be happy? Well looks like it because that’s exactly what’s happening with F4 and you’re buying it up.

@ #59
lol u say its a fail bcuz it doesn’t have enough scottish , NI , wales or england cars
u know y there aren’t many bcuz they suck
they should have taken off every vauxhall (opel) in this update poor excuse for a car

@62
agreed, everyone knows GT was the original racing sim for consols. anything else is merely imitation.
and the noob that said F4 has better graphics than GT5 needs glasses.
F4 might at first glance look better than GT5, but they look more cartoon.
GT5 looks more realistic (except the shadows). GT5 has some breathtaking background landscapes and there should be no competition in that department.

Its nice that they have finally made some DLC available, but do we really need MORE Japanese cars? Bit disappointing after all this waiting.
Why didn’t they release some more interesting cars like the Aerial Atom, Veyron SS or even the new Mini rally car?

theres nothing wrong with jap cars and theres more then 1000 cars in the games so I’m sure there a lot of other cars in there as well. I too would not mind mount panorama, but i would rather see some more unique tracks like the pikes peak hillclimb for example and maybe some actual drift tracks like from D1 and/or formula D.

I know there is nothing wrong with Japanese cars. Im saying is there really any need for MORE of them. There are already about 50 variations of the Skyline, is that not enough? Now they are adding 4 more…

To save an endurance race, you have to pit. The option to suspend the race will appear.

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Great update. Lots of nice little fixes and some new features.

DLC… only the track pack (for Spa) is of interest to me. The car pack has too many familiar cars and too many Japanese cars. The racing suits and paint chips – sorry, but I’m not paying for that stuff.

I hope there will be more tracks in the future as DLC. Hopefully Brands Hatch or Bathurst, maybe some original GT tracks.

#62. GT5 only have 200 premium cars, so how can that be more than 500? (Even Polyphony said officially that it only have 200.) Are you or Polyphony right about this? ğ

Oh btw.. GT5 have like 50 different Skylines which count as one model for example. Different skins dont make it a new car brand.
Alot of the cars in GT5 is only disc fillers. Its the quality and not quantity that counts.

to be honest u couldn’t drift if u tried shedboy90 ,,,,wow did u check that up all by yourself, gave you a clap lol just u keep trying to drift never know when your about 90 ya might just get there near get there even at that i doubt it

It’s been an absolute pleasure supporting this franchise. All the hard work from the devs is definately reminding me why GT has been such a huge success over the past decade or more. This brand has evolved so much, and with such elegance.

The best thing about this is people who don’t buy the track pack,can join and play those tracks if the host has bought it.The problem with level/track style packs in mp games,is the splitting of the community.If this isn’t a bug,and is intentional,then PD is even better than I thought.

I’m expecting a few seasonal events that focus on the new tracks.Hopefully there will be some nice rewards acknowledging those who have bought them.

Penrose,if your still looking in here,are EU definitely getting this on tuesday,and not store day?Or is the purchase done ingame and bypassing the store update?

Same here, KarvaNaama.
As this Blog post says; The âComplete Packâ bundle is priced at â¬11.99, but there is also a special PlayStation Plus Bundle Price for one month (from 18th October) of only â¬8.99.
Okey, 8,99 Euros, is 69,57 NOK. Not 91 NOK. So where is our DISCOUNT SONY?

Just bought the DLC at 12 Euro…
Just to fin out that it is ONLY made available to the PSN-account used to buy the pack!! It is not made available to the other accounts (my kids accounts) on same PS3.
This was NOT mentioned anywhere, that it would be “personal” content!!

This is highly unacceptable..!! There is NO WAY, that I am gonne spend another 36 Euro to buy this for the additional 3 accounts for my family-members!

How I feel ripped off now!
I surely hope that Sony/PD will reconsider this, very soon..!
Sony, if you read this comment, I will be looking forward to a get a response from you!

Bought this on my general account and switched to my GT5 account to play and can’t use it. Terms state it can be used on 5 activated ps3’s (like most store content) but that’s not the case. Purchased again and onto the phone for a credit back on the other account. At least make it clear what the restrictions are please! Why on earth can’t it be used on other accounts on the same activated PS3?!

” ONLY made available to the PSN-account used to buy the pack? ”
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It is not made available to other active accounts? ( EVEN when on the PS-Store is mentions that the content can be used with 5 active consoles? )
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It was NOT mentioned anywhere that it would be âpersonalâ content on the PS-Store? ( Until after you bought the content then went into the GT5 Download option to get the content you paid for ?)
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So PS-Store terms clearly state it can be used with 5 active consoles,but thats not the case whatsoever? How do people get refunded for this DLC?